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In Thuluyah, reverberations of a U.S. raid

In Articles, Journalism, Pulitzer Entries 2010, Pulitzer Prize
THULUYAH, IRAQ -- Recitation of the Koran, mournful but consoling, played from a scratchy cassette as the men gathered in the funeral tent for condolences. They sipped bitter Arabic coffee, only enough to leave an aftertaste. As they smoked cigarettes, an American helicopter rumbled overhead, its rotors sounding the familiar drumbeat of war.
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‘People woke up, and they were gone’

In Articles, Journalism, Pulitzer Entries 2010, Pulitzer Prize

SUWAYRAH, IRAQ — The U.S. military called it shock and awe, and it began on March 21, 2003 — 8:09 p.m., to be exact. It concluded here with a sigh. No one quite remembers when the Americans withdrew from Forward Operating Base Summers.

“One morning they left, and they never came back,” said Osama Majid, [...]

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In Anbar, U.S.-Allied Tribal Chiefs Feel Deep Sense of Abandonment

In Articles, Journalism, Pulitzer Entries 2010, Pulitzer Prize

RAMADI, Iraq — There was once a swagger to the scotch-swilling, insurgent-fighting Raed Sabah. He was known as Sheik Raed to his sycophants. Tribesmen who relied on his largess called him the same. So did his fighters, who joined the Americans and helped crush the insurgency in Anbar province.

Sabah still likes his scotch — [...]

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Worries About Kurdish-Arab Conflict Move to Fore in Iraq

In Articles, Journalism, Pulitzer Entries 2010, Pulitzer Prize
QARAQOSH, Iraq -- Louis Khno is a city councilman whose city is beyond his control. In his barricaded streets are militiamen -- in baseball caps and jeans, wielding Kalashnikov rifles, with the safeties switched off. They answer to someone else. Leaders of his police force give their loyalty to their ethnic brethren -- be they Kurd or Arab. Clergy in the town pledge themselves to the former. Khno and his colleagues to the latter.
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In the City of Cement

In Articles, Journalism, Pulitzer Entries 2010, Pulitzer Prize
There is a hint of an older Baghdad in old Baghdad. You might call it more of a taunt. It's there at the statue of the portly poet Marouf al-Rusafi, pockmarked by bullets, who gives his name to an untamed square. Around him revolves a city, storied but shabby, that American soldiers have finally, ostensibly, left.
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A Quite but Undeniable Cultural Legacy

In Articles, Journalism, Pulitzer Entries 2010, Pulitzer Prize
U.S. Occupation of Iraq Will End, but a Host of American Influences ay Linger

BAGHDAD — Across the street from the tidy rows of tombstones in the British cemetery, mute testimony to the soldiers of an earlier occupation, Mustafa Muwaffaq bears witness to the quieter side of the United States’ six-year-old presence in Iraq.

In [...]

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A Journey Into the Iraq of Recollection

In Articles, Journalism, Pulitzer Entries 2010, Pulitzer Prize

BAGHDAD — A sandstorm always makes a dreary Baghdad drearier. The sun turns to a moon in a funereal gray sky. Time surrenders its procession, as dawn melts into a cloudy day that feels like dusk. Common these days, the storms bring a gauze of grit that settles over everything, and the eyebrows of Pvt. [...]

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No One Values the Victims Anymore

In Articles, Journalism, Pulitzer Entries 2010, Pulitzer Prize
ABU GHRAIB, Iraq, March 11 -- At noon Tuesday, there was the explosion. Gunfire followed, and 33 people were dead, pieces of their corpses mixing with stagnant water, trash and soggy scraps of food. At noon Wednesday, there were the atlal.
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New Paths to Power Emerge in Iraq

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Cleric’s Ascent to Local Strongman Illustrates Shift Underway

THULUYAH, Iraq — Nadhim Khalil wears the clothes of the cleric he is. He bears the scars of the insurgent he was. And in a country where business these days is power, he talks the speech of the merchant he has become, plying his trade in a [...]

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In Iraq, the Day After

In Articles, Journalism, Pulitzer Entries 2010, Pulitzer Prize
The War, in a Sense, Is Over. But a New Struggle Begins As Citizens Ask the Inevitable Question: What Next?
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    • In Thuluyah, reverberations of a U.S. raid
    • ‘People woke up, and they were gone’
    • In Anbar, U.S.-Allied Tribal Chiefs Feel Deep Sense of Abandonment
    • Worries About Kurdish-Arab Conflict Move to Fore in Iraq
    • In the City of Cement
    • A Quite but Undeniable Cultural Legacy
    • A Journey Into the Iraq of Recollection
    • No One Values the Victims Anymore
    • New Paths to Power Emerge in Iraq
    • In Iraq, the Day After